{"product_id":"a-derivational-syntax-for-information-luis-l-pez-9780199557400","title":"A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure","description":"In this volume, Luis Lez sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Program. Through a careful analysis of dislocations and focus fronting in Romance, the author shows that notions such as 'topic' and 'focus', as usually defined, yield no predictions and proposes instead a feature system based on the notions 'discourse anaphor' and 'contrast'. He presents a detailed model of syntax---information-structure interaction and argues that this interaction takes place at the phase level, with a privileged role for the edge of the phase. Further, he investigates phenomena concerning the syntax of objects in Romance and Germanic - accusative A, p-movement, clitic doubling, scrambling, object shift - and shows that there are cross-linguistic correlations between syntactic configuration and specificity, independent of discourse connectedness. The volume ends with an extended analysis of the syntax of dislocations in Romance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luis Lez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199557403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199557400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Luis Lez","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054719267071,"sku":"9780199557400","price":67.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_32e5519a-4f6e-477a-a2c7-2e3f7a4b7c76.jpg?v=1685031591","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-derivational-syntax-for-information-luis-l-pez-9780199557400","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}